The drama club is selling short-sleeved shirts for $5 Let x represent the number of short-sleeved shirts each, and long-sleeved shirts for $10 each. They hope to ordered and let y represent the number of long-sleeved
sell all of the shirts they ordered, to earn a total of shirts ordered
$1,750. After the first week of the fundraiser, they sold
How many short-sleeved shirts were ordered?
of the short-sleeved shirts and
of
of the long-sleeved
How many long-sleeved shirts were ordered?
shirts, for a total of 100 shirts.
This system of equations models the situation
5x + 10y = 1,750
1x + {y = 100
Done
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(50 ) mrs. julien’s and mrs. castillejo’s classes are selling cookie dough for a school fundraiser. customers can buy packages of macadamia nut chip cookie dough and packages of triple chocolate cookie dough. mrs. julien’s class sold 25 packages of macadamia nut chip cookie dough and 30 packages of triple chocolate cookie dough for a total of $221.25. mrs. castillejo’s class sold 5 packages of macadamia nut chip cookie dough and 45 packages of triple chocolate cookie dough for a total of $191.25. (a) write the system of equations that model the problem. be sure to explain which equation represents which situation. (b) find the cost of each type of cookie. show your work. (c) explain which method you used to solve the system and why you chose that method.